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9 Norwegian Antisemitism After 1945 Kjetil Braut Simonsen 9Norwegian Antisemitism after 1945 Current Knowledge Abstract: How did the Second World Warand the trauma of the German occupa- tion affect the extent and nature of Norwegian antisemitism after 1945? This ar- ticle provides an overviewofresearch dealingwith postwar and contemporary antisemitism in Norway. Furthermore, it seeks to suggest some directions for fur- ther research. One priority,itargues, should be to analyse the development of Norwegian postwar antisemitism on abroad historicalbasis. Postwar antisemit- ism has gone through different stages since 1945. Which elements of antisemit- ism survivedthe experience of the Holocaust,which have been weakened, and which have faded away?Another important dimension for further research is the scope and development of Norwegian everydayantisemitism,asadiscourse and as aform of practice. How has antisemitism been expressedoutside of the public sphere, and how has this affected the Jewish minorityinNorway? Keywords: Antisemitism; anti-Zionism; attitudes;far right; historiography; Nor- way; post-Second World War. The defeat of the Hitler regime in 1945and revelations of the scope of Nazi crimes duringthe Second World Warmark aturning point in the history of Euro- pean antisemitism. Due to the experiencesduringthe Second World War, “fascist ideologyquicklybecame indeliblylinked to savagery and extermination in the European and Americanpublic imagination.”¹ As aresult,Swedish historian Henrik Bachner concludes, anti-Jewishsentiments – at least in their open, polit- ical form – wereconsistentlyrejected in the public sphere after 1945: The culture of prejudice,which earlier was tolerated to acertain degree, was no longer ac- cepted[rumsren]. Anti-Jewish and antisemitic sentimentsand ideas became taboo.² However,this public rejection of antisemitism did not lead to its disappearance as a latentcultural structure of stereotypes and negative representations.Ashas Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson, “Introduction,” in Doublespeak:The Rhetoric of the Far Right since 1945,ed. Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag,2014), 7. Henrik Bachner, Återkomsten. Antisemitism iSverigeefter 1945 (Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2004), 15.Translation by Simonsen. OpenAccess. ©2020 Kjetil Braut Simonsen,published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634822-011 174 Kjetil Braut Simonsen been noted in several studies, antisemitism has continued to occur in less visible contexts, such as in everydaydiscourse and internal communication within dis- tinct groups.³ What was the impact of the war and the trauma of the German occupation on the extent and nature of Norwegian antisemitism after 1945? How has anti- semitismdeveloped from 1945tothe present?Like other countries occupied by Nazi Germanyduring the Second World War, Norwaywas deeplyaffected by the Holocaust.Altogether,773 Jews from Norwayweredeported, most of them sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Onlythirty-eight of these deportedJews sur- vived. In total, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered between thirty and forty per cent of the Jews living in Norwaybefore the German occupation.⁴ This article provides an overview of existing research on postwar and con- temporary antisemitism. It seeks to summarize the current state of knowledge on the scope, nature, and development of Norwegian antisemitism after the Hol- ocaust.Furthermore, and in extension to this,italsopresents some suggestions for further research. Generalworks Formanydecades, antisemitism in Norwaywas exploredbyhistorians onlytoa limited extent.However,starting in the 1990s, knowledge of the subject has been greatlyexpanded. The exclusion of Jews in the Norwegian Constitution of 1814,⁵ representations of the Jewinthe dailyand satirical press duringthe first decades of the twentieth century,⁶ the debate leading up to the prohibition of Jewish re- See for example JanWeyand, “Das Konzept der Kommunikationslatenz und der Fortschritt in der soziologischen Antisemitismusforschung,” Jahrbuch fürAntisemitismusforschung 26 (2017): 37–58. Weyand claims that acoreof“der beobachtetenVeränderungdes Antisemitismus nach 1945[ist]: Er wirdzwar in der Öffentlichkeit skandalisiert,kannimprivaten Raum aber weitgehend ungehindert artikuliert werden” (the observed change in antisemitism after 1945: Al- though it is scandalous in public, it can be voiced relatively freelyinthe private sphere). Quo- tation on p. 47. On the Holocaust in Norway, see in particular Bjarte Bruland, Holocaust iNorge:Registrering. Deportortasjon. Tilintetgjørelse (Oslo:Dreyerforlag, 2017). The ideological background of this article of the Constitutionisanalysedindetail in Håkon Harket, Paragrafen: Eidsvold 1814 (Oslo:Dreyer, 2014). An anthology in English is also published on the subject,see ChristhardHoffmann, ed., The Exclusion of Jews in the Norwegian Constitution of 1814: Origins – Contexts – Consequences (Berlin: Metropol, 2016.) Lars Lien, “‘…pressen kan kunskrive ondtomjøderne.’ Jøden som kulturell konstruksjon i norsk dags- og vittighetspresse 1905–1925” (PhD thesis, University of Oslo, 2016). 9Norwegian Antisemitism after 1945 175 ligious slaughter in 1929,⁷ and the antisemitism of the fascist collaborationist party Nasjonal Samling⁸ are among the topics that have now been thoroughly ex- amined. Several works have also outlinedthe history of Norwegian antisemitism before 1945inamore general sense.⁹ Still, very little of this research has focused on the historicaldevelopment of antisemitism in Norway after the Holocaust.Nosingle work analysingthe extent and development of antisemitism in Norwegian society from 1945tothe present currentlyexists. The book that comes closest to being ageneral historicalaccount,atleast from 1945tothe mid-1980s, is the second volume of Oskar Mendelsohn’s Jødenes historie iNorge. In this broad synthesis, Mendelsohn points to several examples of antisemitism in Norwayatdifferent times in the postwar period. Mendelsohn claims that open, political antisemitism never attained the sameintensity as in Central and Eastern Europe. He also states thatthe conditions for anti-Jewish thoughtwerefurther weakened duringthe postwarperiod.¹⁰ In Jødenes historie iNorge, antisemitic attitudes and actionsare described as “setbacks” within the framework of agenerallypositive development: But setbacksoccur. Several [people] claim to recognize some elementsofantisemitism or related features in statements fromcertain extreme political circles sincethe late1960s. Also, cases of what can be called vulgarantisemitism have occurredand most likelystill occur,inthe form of derogatory comments and crude remarks … They show that inherited beliefs about the Jews maystill live on …¹¹ Mendelsohn alsomentions that antisemitic narratives such as Holocaust denial werecommon among the organized groups of former members of Nasjonal Sam- Andreas Snildal, “An Anti-Semitic Slaughter Law? The Origins of the Norwegian Prohibition of Jewish Religious Slaughter.1890 –1930” (PhD thesis, University of Oslo, 2014). Kjetil BrautSimonsen, “VidkunQuisling, antisemittismen og den paranoide stil,” Historisk tidsskrift 4(2017): 446–67. See, for example, Oskar Mendelsohn, Jødenes historie iNorge gjennom 300 år,vol. 1(Oslo:Uni- versitetsforlaget, 1969), 488–96 and 556–70;Terje Emberland, “Antisemittismen iNorge 1900 – 1940,” in Jødehat: Antisemittismens historie fraantikken til idag,ed. Trond Berg Eriksen, Håkon Harket, and Einhart Lorenz (Oslo:Cappelen Damm, 2005), 401–20;Per Ole Johansen, Ossselv nærmest: Norge og jødene 1914–1943 (Oslo:Gyldendal, 1984), and Einhart Lorenz, “Vi har ikke invitert jødene hit til landet – norskesyn på jødene ietlangtidsperspektiv” in Forestillinger om jøder:Aspekter vedkonstruksjonenavenminoritet 1814–1940,ed. Øivind Kopperud and Vibeke Moe (Oslo:Unipub, 2011), 35–52. Oskar Mendelsohn, Jødenes historie iNorge gjennom 300 år,vol. 2(Oslo:Universitetsforlaget, 1987), 364. Mendelsohn, Jødenes historie,vol. 2, 364.TranslationbySimonsen. 176 Kjetil Braut Simonsen ling and within otherright-wing circles.¹² He cites several examples in which Nor- wegian national newspapers,such as Arbeiderbladet, Dagbladet, Aftenposten, and Verdens Gang,took aclear public stance against antisemitism.¹³ While it is based on ahugeamountofempirical material, Mendelsohn’s book has several shortcomings. Forone thing,the book is more achronicle of sources than ahistorical analysis. Antisemitism is documented through individ- ual cases, and the author makes few efforts to summarize his findingsortodis- cuss the characteristics and functionsofpostwar antisemitism more systemati- cally. In other words, the book reveals interesting empirical data and contains manyhistorical details,but it givesnogeneral evaluation of postwar antisemit- ism as aphenomenon. As general studies of the historicaldevelopment of postwar antisemitism in Norwayare lacking,much of the knowledge sought has to be gleaned from works focusing on either specific political groups,topics, or individuals. In the following,Iwill discuss the different aspects of postwar antisemitism themati- cally. One subtopic is public discourse and the creation of an anti-antisemitic taboo after 1945. Asecond theme is the continuity of far-right antisemitism.A third theme is leftist antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Afourth topic is contempo- rary antisemitism:research dealing with present manifestations of antisemitism rather than its historical development.For
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